IPv6 Related Stuff

IPv6 solution for blocked PirateBay

2012-01-11T19:44:00.001+01:00

Dutch ISPs Xs4all and Ziggo have been court ordered to block access to The Pirate Bay. I don't know how the blocking will be done (based on DNS lookups or IPv4 address), but I think there might be an easy way around this block: just use http://thepiratebay.org.ipv6.sixxs.org/ , which is an IPv6-ed, proxyfied access to TPB. You need to have IPv6 access to be able to access this URL. Luckily,

Dutch ISP Telfort conducting IPv6 pre-pilot based on 6RD

2012-01-02T14:50:00.000+01:00

The Dutch ISP Telfort (www.telfort.nl) has started a IPv6 pre-pilot based on 6RD. 6RD stands for "IPv6 Rapid Deployment", and is an adapted 6to4 tunnel technology: in 6RD, the tunnel end point is defined, and is owned by the tunnel provider or ISP. This results in a more predictable and thus reliable IPv6 tunnel service. 6RD is used by the French ISP "Free", and others. More details on http://

Test your IPv6 speed via

2011-11-28T07:24:00.001+01:00

Nice: test your IPv6 speed via http://ipv6-test.com/speedtest/

Fun with SOCKS, IPv6 and SSH

2011-11-26T21:43:00.001+01:00

This is fun stuff with both IPv6 and SOCKS. And ... the IPv6 is a side effect of the SOCKS ... ;-)First some info on SOCKS: I thought SOCKS was just some old-skool proxy protocol on corporate networks. But I learned you can also use SOCKS (in ssh) to prevent spying by ISPs, governments and other third paries. Here's how: You need an external SSH-server (which hopefully does IPv6). There are

IPv6 Fun: "defa:ced"

2011-11-16T15:09:00.001+01:00

Funny: Fun with IPv6 addresses ... see http://codingrelic.geekhold.com/2011/04/ipv6-addresses-for-fun-and-profit.html There are much more options than just dead:beef:f00d ! a110:c8ed I allocated an address, just for you. defa:ced I hate my web designer. bad:fac:ade Our CSS needs work. bad:deed Thank you for visiting my site. Really. be:fa11 As in "what has befallen yon dead server?" abba:ca:daba

SABnzbd with Bonjour patch

2011-10-22T20:55:00.001+02:00

With a patch, SABnzbd will announce itself via Bonjour. That way, you can find SABnzbd's web interface easily on your LAN. No need to hassle with IP addresses and port numbers. I've tested this patched SABnzbd on Ubuntu. Here's how to use it:Make sure the plain SABnzbd is working on your system.The "SABnzbd Host" under Config -> General should state 0.0.0.0 (or ::) so that SABnzbd listens on the

Easy NZB-downloading on Ubuntu 11.10 with nzbget via free IPv6-only Newsservers

2011-10-15T10:49:00.003+02:00

Ubuntu 11.10 (also known as Oneiric Ocelot) has got the NZB-downloader nzbget in its repositories. Combined with IPv6 based on miredo, and the free IPv6-only Newsservers, downloading NZBs is easy and you don't need a newsserver account. Here's the howto: Open a terminal and type: sudo apt-get install nzbget miredozcat /usr/share/doc/nzbget/examples/nzbget.conf.example.gz > ~/.nzbget nzbget -s -

VMware Player blocks Teredo IPv6 on Windows 7

2011-08-12T07:20:00.001+02:00

It seems VMware Player blocks Teredo IPv6 on Windows 7:Teredo IPv6 was working on 'my' Windows 7. However, after installing VMware Player, all IPv6 connectivity was gone: "ipconfig" showed a lot of VMware interfaces, but no Teredo IPv6 anymore. I'm now removing VMware Player, and immediately the Teredo IPv6 interface pops up again and http://test-ipv6.com/ tells me I have IPv6 connectivty again.

Cable ISP Ziggo to provide IPv6 in "2012"

2011-07-31T22:21:00.000+02:00

Interesting: Dutch Cable ISP "Ziggo" says it's going to provide IPv6 to it's cable customers in mid / end 2012. See https://www.ziggo.nl/#entertainment/nieuws/ziggo/ziggo/0/ziggo-en-het-nieuwe-internetprotocol-ipv6 Quotes: "Vanaf eind 2012 wordt bij bestaande klanten IPv6 toegevoegd. Nieuwe klanten krijgen dan direct IPv6." "Naar verwachting ondersteunt Ziggo medio 2012 het IPv6 protocol voor

Stream your Webcam over IPv6 using VLC

2011-02-27T14:40:00.001+01:00

It's quite easy to stream your Webcam over IPv6. Here's the recipe for doing it on Ubuntu Linux:Make sure VLC is installed ("sudo apt-get install vlc")Make sure your webcam is connected Make sure VLC can see your webcam: "vlc v4l2:///dev/video0" should show what your webcam sees.Now start VLC as a streamer on port 4444 (or choose another free port above 1024) with this one command: cvlc -vvv

face:b00c::

2011-02-02T22:48:00.001+01:00

Quote from http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/tech-giants-to-enable-ipv6-on-world-ipv6-day-in-june.ars Facebook has www.v6.facebook.com—with address 2620:0:1cfe:face:b00c::3. Ah, hexadecimal humor. Funny.

Enabling IPv6 Privacy Extensions on Ubuntu Linux

2011-02-01T14:40:00.001+01:00

On plain Ubuntu (and probably other Linux variants), the right hand part of the IPv6 address is based on your MAC address. As your MAC address is fixed and worldwide unique, you can be traced around the (IPv6) world based on your IPv6 (containing your MAC address). And often this is not wanted. There's a solution for this called "IPv6 Privacy Extensions". It will give you semi-random IPv6 address

Android 2.2 does IPv6, and ... answers ping's

2011-01-31T23:59:00.001+01:00

Interesting: A HTC Wildfire with Android 2.2:does IPv6 when it's provided via RADVD on a Wireless LAN... answers ping6-messagesHere's a dump from the webserver's logfile, and then a ping6 to that IPv6 address of the Android: 2001:838:3ba:a:baab:bbbb:aaaa:b - - [31/Jan/2011:23:46:21 +0100] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 1173 "" "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.2.1; nl-nl; HTC_Wildfire_A3333 Build/FRG83D)

Googlebot is visiting my website via IPv6

2010-11-23T19:22:00.001+01:00

Interesting: Googlebot is visiting my website via IPv6: 2001:4860:4801:1303:0:6006:1300:b075 - - [22/Nov/2010:16:46:21 +0100] "GET /newsserver.txt HTTP/1.1" 200 1966 "" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)" 2001:4860:4801:1402:0:6006:1300:b075 - - [23/Nov/2010:04:49:22 +0100] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1" 200 26 "" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http:/

IPv6 test sites

2010-10-01T10:44:00.001+02:00

Here's an overview of sites that can test your IPv6 connectivity and give a bit more information than "you're connecting over ...":http://www.appelboor.com/ipv6.html hard core IPv6-test site, no frills, links to a nice iGoogle Gadget "IPv6 Checker" http://test-ipv6.com/ beautiful IPv6-test site which does see Teredo IPv6 connectivity on Windows Vista and Windows 7, but strangely enough awards 0

IPv6 transition will be ugly

2010-09-30T22:57:00.001+02:00

Ars Technica story

iGoogle Gadget to check your IPv6 address and connectivity

2010-08-21T15:01:00.003+02:00

If you use iGoogle and you want to know your IPv6 connectivity, here is a gadget to report your IPv6 address and IPv6 network connectivity. See the screendump for an example output. It works for all operatings systems (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, iPhone, iPad, Android, etc) and all browsers able to view iGoogle. Or just click the button below to add this gadget to your iGoogle:

Cool: iPhone OS 4 does IPv6 (on an IPv6 enabled Wifi network)

2010-08-21T08:20:00.001+02:00

Cool: Apparently iPhone OS 4 does IPv6 too, as I found this entry in my webserver log file: 2620:0:da0:4003:6233:bbbb:fedb:aaaa - - [20/Aug/2010:18:00:01 +0200] "GET /set-ipv6resolving.js HTTP/1.1" 200 21 "http://www.appelboor.com/ipv6.html" "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_0_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8A400 Safari/6531.22.7" (IPv6

Android 2.1 actually does IPv6!

2010-05-30T13:03:00.001+02:00

Wow, that's cool: Android 2.1 (on a HTC Desire) really, really does IPv6. Proof: visiting http://wattcher.015.info/check-ipv6-refresh.html results in this logging: 2001:838:b1a:0:223:76ff:fefc:979a - - [30/May/2010:12:21:34 +0200] "GET /cgi-bin/fill-address-with-REMOTE_ADDR.cgi HTTP/1.1" 200 25000 "http://wattcher.015.info/check-ipv6-refresh.html" "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.1-update1;

IPv6 only Vuze

2010-05-01T10:15:00.002+02:00

Just for Fun: It's quite easy (and interesting) to create an IPv6-only Vuze (aka Azureus). This is how: In Vuze, choose Tools -> Options, and then on the left side choose "IP Filters", and then on the right side check "Enable" and "ALLOW these ranges". Don't fill out any IP address in the white block below. Then click Apply. The result of this setting is that all IPv4 peers and seeds are

Overview of Teredo Relay Servers

2010-04-01T21:49:00.001+02:00

Overview of Teredo Relay Servers is here: http://bgpmon.net/teredo.phpOnly 13 in the world ... I'm surprised Teredo/Miredo works so well for me.

IPv6 at 150 kmph

2010-02-27T10:40:00.001+01:00

Cool: IPv6 at 150 kmph ... in the train to Brussels. Thanks to KPN Mobile and my Nokia N97 combined with Teredo/Miredo on my Ubuntu. Result:Let's check your IPv6 connectivity: OK, you have IPv6 network connectivity. Your IPv6 address is 2001:0:53aa:64c:b6:14c1:4331:57e. Congratulations: you have IPv6 name resolving, too. This means you have full IPv6 connectivity.

Vigor 2130 supports IPv6 via DHCPv6 and TSPC

2010-02-25T13:44:00.001+01:00

Cool: the Vigor 2130 broadband router from Draytek supports IPv6. The WAN-IPv6-connection can be established via Static IPv6, DHCPv6 and TSPC. See included screendump.Uncool: the price: 119 Euro. Full manual here: http://draytek.com/user/PdInfoDetail.php?Id=111#PdInfo

NbIServ.de offers cheap vServers with IPv6

2010-02-14T22:44:00.001+01:00

The German vServer / hosting provider NbIServ.de now offers IPv6. As their vServers start at 2.60 Euro per month, this is a great way to get an IPv6 enabled root server based on Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Suse or some other Linux. One downside: most texts, including the output of the operating system (!), is in German.IPv6 announcement here, the cheapest vServer with all options here.

SABnzbd + XSnews + IPv6 = Walhalla

2010-02-02T21:33:00.001+01:00

A picture of the IPv6 Walhalla: SABnzbd + XSnews + IPv6

Free binary newsserver via Xsnews and IPv6

2010-01-30T23:23:00.003+01:00

This is quite incredible: Xsnews offers free access to their binary newsservers over IPv6. I've measured downloads at linespeed (18 Mbps)! It's Xsnews' way to promote IPv6. It works much better than Eweka's and Xs4all's newszilla free IPv6 newsservice. It's quite easy to get access: fill out your email address on http://www.xsnews.com/ipv6/ipv6_aanvraag.php , and then wait a few minutes for the

Cool: IPv6 directly connected to "1-wire" sensors

2010-01-26T21:01:00.003+01:00

Cool! Someone has used IPv6 to give each "1-wire" sensor it's own IPv6 address and webserver. He has created an IPv6 stack in a microcontroller. Impressive. See here: http://www.shapeshifter.se/2009/07/10/1-wire-meets-ipv6/ If you don't want to read the full article, here are the URLs for the sensors: 2001:16d8:ffe5:002:2894:eaf6:100:0c7 2001:16d8:ffe5:002:28c1:b4f6:100:035 2001:16d8:ffe5:

Transmission 1.80 released with "Improved IPv6 support" ... still no IPv6 webinterface

2010-01-22T18:17:00.001+01:00

Bittorrent client Transmission version 1.80 has been released. The release notes (http://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/Changes#version-1.80) say "Improved IPv6 support" ... what would that mean? My hope is of course that the webinterface of Transmission is now IPv6-enabled. Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (alpha 2) has Transmission 1.80, so I've run Lucid to see if the webinterface is indeed IPv6 enabled ...But

main Google search page www.google.com on IPv6 too [UPDATE: Selected ISPs only]

2010-01-19T19:04:00.002+01:00

UPDATE: Google is indeed on IPv6, but only via ISPs participating in "Google over IPv6". The post below was on a KPN Hotspot, which is connected to Xs4all, which is such a participator. Pity. Normal users with non-IPv6 ISPs have to wait. :-( Wow, even the mainstream Google page is on IPv6, too! So not only ipv6.google.com, but also www.google.com and www.google.nl See below sander@quirinius:~

Gmail is on IPv6! [UPDATE: Only selected ISPs]

2010-01-19T18:56:00.002+01:00

UPDATE: Gmail is indeed on IPv6, but only via ISPs participating in "Google over IPv6". The post below was on a KPN Hotspot, which is connected to Xs4all, which is such a participator. Pity. Normal users with non-IPv6 ISPs have to wait. :-( Wow, Gmail is on IPv6! See the output below, and the screendump with IPv6 addres in right lower corner. Compliments to Google! Google seems to be the only

Bravo Vista! (Sort of)

2010-01-13T23:08:00.001+01:00

I'm typing this on a friend's Windows Vista machine. The strange thing: the machine is directly connected to Internet and thus has a public IPv4 address. The interesting thing: IPv6 works ... not based on the Teredo 2001:0: address, but based on the 6to4 2002: address. The IPv6-only website http://ipv6.ip6.me/ shows my 2002: address. So: Bravo Vista for the IPv6 connectivity.Oh, wait: the IPv4 &

Hoster Strato offers IPv6

2009-12-13T20:38:00.001+01:00

The German hoster Strato now offers IPv6 on it's Highspeed-Server products. The official communication says "IPv6 Ready (Beta)". I hope "IPv6 Ready" does mean it really does IPv6. (Remember: all current operating systems are already IPv6 Ready, but mostly IPv6 is not activated nor used :-( ) Details of the offering here: http://www.strato.de/server/dedicated/highq/index.html

Silly uTorrent: "hostname not found" for IPv6-only tracker on stupid Windows Vista

2009-12-10T22:55:00.001+01:00

uTorrent is a great graphical tool to activate Teredo IPv6 on Windows XP.However, uTorrent on Windows Vista is quite silly: with the IPv6-only tracker tracker.sixxs.net, uTorrent says "hostname not found". Grrrr! And do remember: on Vista Teredo IPv6 is enabled by default, so IPv6 should work. Probably uTorrent is using Vista's braindead name resolving, meaning: no AAAA lookups with Teredo IPv6.

Improved Teredo / Miredo: three suggestions

2009-12-06T11:15:00.003+01:00

If 6to4 can be improved (see 6rd here), why not improve Teredo / Miredo? As a happy Teredo / Miredo user, I have a few suggestions:First: Make Teredo an ISP service, by strongly binding it to the ISP: teredo server, teredo relay and addresses from the ISP. That way, ISPs have an incentive to deploy Teredo / Miredo infrastructures: help their own customers (instead of helping random people accross

6rd: improved 6to4

2009-12-06T10:44:00.001+01:00

Rémi Després has developed "6rd" (IPv6 Rapid Deployment), which is animproved version of 6to4: 6rd has the good things of 6to4 (easy IPv6over IPv4 tunnel technique), but has taken care of one of the BadThings of 6to4: with 6rd the IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnel is completelyhandled by the customer's own ISP, instead of some random unknown 6to4gateway on the Internet. So, with 6rd you get an IPv6 from your

SABnzbd's webinterface on IPv6

2009-11-29T22:24:00.003+01:00

The great NZB downloader SABnzbd is fully IPv6 enabled:you can download from IPv6 newsservers, like new.ipv6.eweka.nl and newszilla6.xs4all.nl. This feature is enabled by default. you can access SABnzbd's webinterface over IPv6. See instruction below.Here's how to make SABnzbd's webinterface accessable over IPv6: go to http://localhost:8080/sabnzbd/config/general/ . Find this part: SABnzbd Host:

CouchDB ... with IPv6?!

2009-11-20T22:44:00.003+01:00

... brute force grepping on the CouchDB source code seems to reveal there is IPv6 in CouchDB. Now I have to find out how to enable it ...UPDATE:Thanks to JanL's comment, my CouchDB instance now works over IPv6 (::1):I added the IPv6 localhost address ::1 to "bind_address" in /etc/couchdb/local.ini, like this:[httpd];port = 5984;bind_address = 127.0.0.1bind_address = ::1After a restart, CouchDB

IPv6 an overwhelming success: "Too many connections to server news.ipv6.eweka.nl:119"

2009-11-04T20:32:00.001+01:00

It's clear: IPv6 is an overwhelming success!Proof is here: "Too many connections to server news.ipv6.eweka.nl:119".;-)But seriously: give users a reason for IPv6 (free downloads!), and they will start using IPv6.

What's my IPv6 address

2009-10-18T17:07:00.001+02:00

http://vzes.info/http://ipv6.ip6.me/http://ip6.me/

Make your IPv4 site IPv6 enabled ... easy and free

2009-10-09T22:36:00.001+02:00

Make your IPv4 site IPv6 enabled ... easy and free ... via http://ipv6proxy.prolocation.net/index1.phpEnable IPv6 for your website Welcome to the IPv6 website Proxy. This portal empowers you to make your current IPv4 website reachable via IPv6. Your website will only be available via this IPv6 proxy service if you'd add an AAAA record in your current DNS settings.

Dutch Weather Forecast via IPv6

2009-10-05T03:40:00.002+02:00

Found via http://sixy.ch/ (a site with an overview of IPv6 enabled sites): the Dutch weather forecast of the KNMI is available via IPv6: www6.knmi.nl .Name: www6.knmi.nlAddresses: 2001:610:178:ec::96 145.23.253.254

Practice your German ... over IPv6 ;-)

2009-08-30T13:41:00.001+02:00

The great German magazine C'T has put their website on IPv6, via a separate URL:http://www.six.heise.de/ct/http://www.six.heise.de/ So you can now practice your German (reading) over IPv6. ;-)

North American IPv6 Task Force: "At least half of U.S. CIOs have IPv6 on their networks"

2009-07-22T14:57:00.003+02:00

Yet another interesting quote:"At least half of U.S. CIOs have IPv6 on their networks that they don't know about, but the hackers do," says Yanick Pouffary, technology director for the North American IPv6 Task Force and an HP Distinguished Technologist. "You can't ignore IPv6. You need to take the minimum steps to secure your perimeter. You need firewalls that understand IPv4 and IPv6. You

Juniper: "look for IPv6 traffic and drop it"

2009-07-22T14:57:00.001+02:00

Interesting quote from Juniper:"What customers need to do within their intrusion-prevention systems or within their firewalls is to explicitly look for IPv6 traffic and drop it,'' says Tim LeMaster, director of systems engineering for Juniper's Federal group.So Juniper is advising to drop IPv6 traffic?! Interesting point of view from a network hardware vendor; I would expect such a vendor to say

Dutch ISP Introweb does IPv6 (-only)

2009-06-27T10:21:00.001+02:00

The Dutch ISP "Introweb" is now offering IPv6 over ADSL. See the Dutch information here: http://www.introweb.nl/producten/categorien/internet_toegang/economy_adsl/ipv6_adsl.shtml It's good to see that an ISP actually offers IPv6 instead of talking about what others should do in the RSN future. ;-(A few things are especially noteworthy:It's a IPv6-only connection. So you need a separate plain IPv4

D-Link DIR-825 home router does IPv6

2009-06-04T21:53:00.001+02:00

D-Link has introduced a wireless router named DIR-825 which seems to do IPv6. D-Link itself provides very little information about the IPv6. I only found some information in this pdf ftp://ftp.dlink.eu/datasheets/DIR-825.pdf IPV6 READYThis router carries both the silver and gold IPv6 Ready logos, signifying that it not only supports the IPv6 protocol, but is also compatible with IPv6 equipment

Help needed: Remote Desktop from Ubuntu to Windows Vista Home Premium over IPv6

2009-05-08T19:48:00.003+02:00

I'm looking for help:I want to use my Ubuntu Linux to access the desktop of a Windows Vista Home Premium over IPv6.I tried to use rdesktop, but that did not work (even not over IPv4 on a LAN). Reason: Home Premium cannot "receive" Remote Desktop sessions. See screendump: there's only a 'Remote Assistance' option, which is not Remote Desktop. (One of those reasons I don't like Windows.) There

'No business case for IPv6, survey finds - Network World'

2009-03-22T21:56:00.001+01:00

Ah, finally: the truth is there:From the page No business case for IPv6, survey finds - Network World: No business case for IPv6, survey finds But Internet Society members report rising customer demand, deployment plans Business incentives are completely lacking today for upgrading to IPv6, the next generation Internet protocol,

Remote Desktop Viewer VNC over IPv6: works on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty (Alpha 6)

2009-03-14T21:24:00.002+01:00

Wow, this is cool: the Remote Desktop Viewer (VNC) in Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty works over IPv6. I'm testing this on Jaunty Alpha 6 and it just works: type in the IPv6 address like [2001::1:2:3] or the full name, and connect. You can also use "vinagre

'Uitzendingen SURFnet-TV' ... IPv6 no go ... :-(

2009-03-14T08:06:00.002+01:00

Anybody successfully playing radio over ipv6 from the Surfnet website (see below)? I get ugly errors trying to use http://www.surfnet-tv.nl/streamgate/radio1-sb_IPv6.asx , both with totem and vlc. Maybe Surfnet is keeping IPv6 Radio to themselves? Or is it just a miredo/teredo routing problem?From the page Uitzendingen SURFnet-TV: Radio over IPv6: (Test of je netwerkverbinding geschikt

IPv6 over KPN Mobile UMTS ... with Nokia N95: easy!

2009-03-06T22:13:00.002+01:00

Even easier than clicking my mouse button three times: connect my Ubuntu with an USB cable (Tiberius is laughing at me about the cable) to my Nokia N95 8GB. On the Nokia, I choose "PC Suite". After a few seconds, Ubuntu shows the Nokia in the Network Manager. When I select it, the connection is working. After a few seconds, miredo / teredo IPv6 kicks in. Wow, this is even easier than the Huawei

IPv6 over KPN Mobile UMTS

2009-03-06T21:35:00.001+01:00

I plugged in a (borrowed) KPN Mobile UMTS PCMCIA card (Huawei E620) into my Ubuntu system. I had to click on "Netherlands" then "KPN Mobile" then activate, and I was online with UMTS. And ... hello again ... PPP! Long time no see! ;-) UMTS was one of the technogolies that promised to give the world IPv6. Just like IMS and others. Well ... NOT: plain IPv4.Luckily enough IPv6 is easy to activate

Beta-firmware with IPv6 for FRITZ! Box Fon WLAN 7270 available

2009-03-02T11:18:00.001+01:00

Cool and good work by AVM: The beta-firmware with IPv6 for the FRITZ! Box Fon WLAN 7270 is available. Rough translation of the German announcement below: enables the usage of IPv6 on your LAN and InternetIPv6CP support for native IPv6 connections over PPP 6to4 supportdual-stack for simultaneous use of IPv4 and IPv6Questions that remain: will there be a firmware with 6over4, sixxs/AYIYA, tspc and

IPv6 via KPN Hotspots

2009-02-27T09:55:00.002+01:00

Nice: IPv6 via KPN Hotspots' Wifi AccessPoints works. As you can see, it's good reliable teredo / miredo that does the trick. I wonder whether KPN Hotspots has plans to provide native IPv6 from their accesspoints. As they provide NAT-less Internet connectivity (see the public IPv4 address 80.101.225.157), I guess native IPv6 could also be done. Maybe someone with KPN Hotspots experience can

Enabling IPv6 support in Avahi (Zeroconf/Bonjour)

2009-02-23T20:35:00.009+01:00

Avahi (http://avahi.org/wiki/AboutAvahi) is already installed out of the box on all recent Linux distributions, to enable IPv6 for this service make sure the /etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf file contains an active "use-ipv6=yes" line.To enable m(ulticast)dns resolving of IPv6 addresses change the"hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4"line to"hosts: files

AVM partners with Freenet to make Fritz!Box IPv6 enabled'

2009-02-23T14:02:00.001+01:00

The good news: AVM is going to provide firmware for their Fritx!Box 7270 that does IPv6. The bad news: the IPv6 is going to be based on 6to4 (with the 2002: addresses), which is horribly unreliable: your 6to4 IPv6 traffic will be handled by unspecified gateways around the world. From the page 'AVM partners with Freenet to make Fritz!Box IPv6 enabled': 'AVM partners with Freenet to make Fritz!Box

Easy steps for IPv6 enabled Transmission 1.50 on Ubuntu

2009-02-20T08:02:00.001+01:00

The Ubuntu repositories stilll have got an older (< 1.50) version of Transmission bittorrent client. I am even not sure which version Jaunty has or will have. So, to get Transmission 1.50 with IPv6, you'll need to do something else: go to http://www.getdeb.net/app/Transmission and select the Ubuntu version you've got. Then download & install the two files. I believe you have to start with the "

Linux Mint ... Anti IPv6?

2009-02-19T21:19:00.001+01:00

Yesterday I installed Linux Mint. It's Ubuntu based, and thus good, and hopefully even a little bit better.Anyway: conclusion on Linux Mint so far: nice looks, but Linux Mint is oh-so anti-IPv6: ipv6 is blacklisted in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklistipv6 name resolution in Firefox is disabled via network.dns.disableIPv6after installing miredo, miredo does not autostart after a boot I could solve 1 and 2

Transmission 1.50 Released: with IPv6 support for peers, and for trackers with explicit IPv6 addresses

2009-02-16T18:09:00.001+01:00

Cool: Transmission 1.50 has been released. To me, the most interesting part is "IPv6 support for peers, and for trackers with explicit IPv6 addresses".Proof that it works: see the included screenshot of transmission connected to another IPv6 bittorrent peer, with happens to be a Vuze (formerly Azureus) 4.1.0.2 client. Hooray! No more NAT problems thanks to IPv6! :-)

What is my IPv6 address

2009-02-07T21:43:00.001+01:00

To find out what your IPv6 address is (and thus whether you have IPv6 connectivity to the Internet), you can visit:http://ipv6.whatismyipv6.net/That should work for Linux and Windows XP with Teredo IPv6. It should show your IPv6 address, something like in the picture. If it doesn't work, it could be that your IPv6 resolving does not work (like on Windows Vista with Teredo), and you visit this

Teredo IPv6 on Windows XP: better than Vista's Teredo?

2009-02-06T19:15:00.001+01:00

OMG! I was glad to report that Vista had a (only?) advantage: Teredo IPv6 on by default. However, the strange thing is that Vista won't lookup an IPv6 / AAAA if only Teredo IPv6 is activated. The result is that you cannot visit ipv6.google.com, for example. Very annoying. What's the goal of Vista's Teredo IPv6 then? Yet another closed source Microsoft mystery. And now I discover this: On

Major IPv6 Breakthrough: 1 ‰ of The Pirate Bay peers has IPv6

2009-02-06T12:10:00.001+01:00

A major Breakthrough for IPv6: 1 ‰ of The Pirate Bay peers has IPv6 connectivity to the Pirate Bay (TPB). That's a whopping 1 in 1000. Or 0.1%. Or 1000 ppm (parts per million). See included pictures for the development the past day and the past week. The 1‰ was achieved in the past 24 hours. Statistics from http://thepiratebay.org/ itself: IPv4 20.400.519 peers IPv6 21.019 peers(So: 20

Teredo IPv6 on Vista: no AAAA resolving by applications ... ?

2009-02-04T22:57:00.001+01:00

Can someone please help, or explain? A Windows Vista machine has IPv6 connectivity (using Teredo), it can resolve IPv6/AAAA addresses using nslookup, it can ping literal IPv6 addresses, but ... it can not ping (nor browse) to a IPv6 domain name like ipv6.google.com. See below. What's causing this? How can I solve this so that a "ping ipv6.google.com" just works?Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6001

Bus with IPv6 ... ;-)

2009-02-02T15:03:00.001+01:00

DynDNS, IPv6, ddclient and dns6.org

2009-02-01T16:12:00.001+01:00

Cool: you can store your (static and dynamic) IPv6 addresses on dns6.org. That's easier than typing or even remembering all those hexadecimal bytes. So create an account on www.dns6.org and create a hostname with your IPv6 address. If you can access the from your IPv6 system, it will fill out your IPv6 address automagically. That's it. It just works. I'm now playing with ddclient and wget to

Transmission Bittorrent client: 1.50 (with IPv6 support) in Beta 3

2009-01-27T22:03:00.001+01:00

As said earlier, the Transmission bittorrent client for Linux and Mac OS X will have IPv6 support in version 1.50. The Beta 3 of version 1.50 is available: About 1.50: 1.50 doesn't have many visual changes, but has lots of improvements under the hood, including IPv6 support, better management of peers, trackers, and local files, and lots of bug fixes. Hopefully Ubuntu 9.04 will use TransmissionBT

The Pirate Bay on IPv6

2009-01-26T18:50:00.003+01:00

The Pirate Bay has announced they have started introducing IPv6. See here.The nice thing: on their front page they announce how much IPv6 is involved. At this moment (26 jan 2009) the statistics are: IPv4 22.616.475 peers (10.033.680 seeders + 12.582.795 leechers) in 1.631.921 torrents on tracker. IPv6 16.087 peers (6.522 seeders + 9.565 leechers) in 13.058 torrents on tracker.So: about

DIY: Google IPv6 Trusted Tester program

2009-01-12T22:20:00.002+01:00

Google has a "IPv6 Trusted Tester program". It means selected IPv6 users can get IPv6 access to Google services. To get selected, Google must trust your ISP and your ISP's IPv6. See here (IPv6) or here (IPv4). Xs4all is a trusted ISP. See here (Dutch!). What if your ISP is not "trusted" by Google, but your IPv6 is working perfectly, for example via Sixxs or Teredo/Miredo?No problem: fill out

Old Trick: this blog via IPv6

2009-01-11T17:07:00.001+01:00

You can view this website via IPv6 by using the URL http://ipv6-or-no-ipv6.blogspot.com.ipv6.sixxs.org/It's an old trick, provided by the people from Sixxs: just fill out "ipv6.sixxs.org" at the end of (the FQDN part) of an URL. Examples: http://www.cnn.com.ipv6.sixxs.org/http://geenstijl.nl.ipv6.sixxs.org/The other way around is possible too: Make an IPv6 site accessible site via IPv4. So: you -

Teredo or no Teredo: that's the question

2008-12-31T16:41:00.002+01:00

Grrrrrrrrrr. Suddenly Eva's laptop (the great Dell Studio Laptop: real great machine) hasn't got IPv6 connectivity anymore. And thus news.ipv6.eweka.nl downloads are not working anymore. Result of ipconfig:C:\>ipconfigWindows IP Configuration Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : lokaal Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::79da:502b:44bc

Transmission bittorrent client successful with IPv6

2008-12-27T22:55:00.001+01:00

Cool: as of December 15 2008, the bittorrent client "Transmission" has IPv6 implemented in the development version. I think it will become public with transmission version 1.5.I couldn't wait for that, so I activated the "nightly build" on my Ubuntu by add the following lines to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/transmissionbt-nightly/ubuntu hardy maindeb-src http://

uTorrent with Teredo IPv6 on Windows XP ... works!

2008-12-21T20:40:00.002+01:00

See the included screenshots: uTorrent with Teredo IPv6 on Windows XP SP3 ... works!Just install and start uTorrent.Then, under Options -> Preferences ( -> General) click "Install IPv6/Teredo". To check the IPv6 functionality, from http://www.sixxs.net/tools/tracker/catalog/ select an active download, for example FreeBSD 7.0-Release i386 CD1 Please note: 1) you need (at least) SP3.2) it should

Windows Vista Teredo status: "general system failure"

2008-12-20T21:01:00.001+01:00

A friend's Windows Vista machine is showing an ugly Teredo status: "general system failure". Needless to say: Teredo is not working. There's even no 2001:0: address. There is, however, strangely enough, a 6to4 2002:-address ... I don't know what the cause is. It might be related to his firewall. He's not behind NAT.Comments / tips welcome.C:\Users\Alain>netsh interface teredo show The following

Handy IPv6 traceroute site

2008-12-12T07:52:00.001+01:00

This is a handy IPv6 traceroute site: http://www.whatismyipv6.net/?s=IPv6_tracerouteBTW: I believe traceroutes with teredo / miredo IPv6 address do a different "to" than "return" trace. Below is a trace with my sixxs IPv6 connectivity.Traceroute to 2001:838:3a4:0:218:deff:fe10:c560: 1 gw-1330.ham-01.de.sixxs.net (2001:6f8:900:531::1) 19.834 ms 19.763 ms 20.972 ms 2 vl101.cr21.

Easy IPv6 on Mac OS X: one step

2008-12-09T12:44:00.002+01:00

Easy, one step procedure to get IPv6 connectivity on you MacOSX: go to http://www.deepdarc.com/2007/02/21/miredo-osx/ or download http://www.deepdarc.com/miredo-osx-prerelease2.pkg.zip directly, and install it.That's it. You should now be able to visit ipv6.google.com and ... download from news.ipv6.eweka.nl

IPv6-enabled internal print server for Epson printers: SEH PS107

2008-12-08T22:28:00.001+01:00

I don't know if this is the first IPv6-enabled internal print server at all, but according to this press release, the SEH PS107 is the first IPv6-enabled internal print server worldwide for all Epson printers with Type B port. The PS107 print server is available as of now for 267 Euro (excluding VAT).

Easy IPv6 on Ubuntu Linux: one step

2008-12-05T15:44:00.002+01:00

Getting IPv6 connectivity on Ubuntu Linux is easy: sudo apt-get install miredoThat's it! The "ifconfig' should now show a teredo interface with your 2001:-IPv6-address. Surf to http://www.whatismyipv6.net/ to check your IPv6 connectivity and see your IPv6 address.Or surf to http://ipv6.google.com/ : you should see the dancing Google logo. BTW: miredo is the open source implementation

Breaking News: Vista has got an advantage!!!

2008-12-05T10:18:00.004+01:00

I just discoverd the first (and only?) advantage of Windows Vista: Vista has IPv6 enabled by default, via Teredo. Only IPv6 resolving seems disabled, probably to avoid unmeant IPv6 usage. ;-)Anyway: with Firefox on Vista I'm able to visit http://[2001:4860:0:1001::68]/ and search. Cool!(http://[2001:4860:0:1001::68]/ is the litteral IPv6 name for http://ipv6.google.com/)Please note: Maybe you

Recipe voor free usenet downloads

2008-12-03T18:15:00.004+01:00

Recipe voor free usenet downloads, of course via IPv6:1) Get free IPv6 access via http://www.sixxs.net/ or freenet6 / go6. Or you could try 6to4 or Teredo2) Get the free usenet / newsgroup downloader SABnzbd, which is IPv6 enabled and works on Linux, MacOSX and Windows.3) Fill out "news.ipv6.eweka.nl" as the newsserver4) Use http://www.binsearch.info/ as search engine for NZBs. Tip: use an

Samba ("Windows") Share over IPv6

2008-12-01T22:19:00.006+01:00

Ubuntu 8.10 has Samba 3.2, which does sharing over IPv6.So Arjan and I tested it: start file manager Nautilus, right-click the directory you want to share and ... that's it.You can now connect using "smbclient \\\\sand-bla.blaburg.net\\grabbelton" or a browser, like Konqueror (see screendump) or Nautilus (Connect to Server, or smb://sand-bla.blaburg.net/grabbelton/)As we haven't got any Windows,

Bittorrent clients that support IPv6

2008-11-25T16:07:00.002+01:00

Wikipedia shows a list of bittorrent clients that support IPv6: µTorrent, Bitflu, BitTornado, BitTorrent 6, Bits on Wheels, Deluge, KTorrent, Opera, qBittorrent, TorrentFlux, Tribler, Vuze (formerly Azureus), TorrentVolve and BitTyrant.That's quite an impressive list. More elaborate than the Sixxs bittorrent client list here.IPv6 torrent content is here. I believe Vuze (formerly Azureus) will

Solution for IPv4 address shortage: IPv4 hijacking

2008-11-24T14:00:00.004+01:00

Instead of introducing IPv6 to solve a possible IPv4 address shortage, ISPs could just hijack IPv4 address spaces from others. For example: the "Department for Work and Pensions of UK" has the Class A address space 51.0.0.0 – 51.255.255.255. In other words: 16.000.000 IPv4 addresses for this organisation. See the wikipedia.Using this 51.x.x.x address space to get 16 million real users online is

OpenWRT on WRT54G with aiccu / sixxs: IPv6 speed limited to 4000 kbps

2008-11-23T13:38:00.002+01:00

OpenWRT on WRT54G with aiccu / sixxs takes care of my IPv6 connectivity. I just discovered that the IPv6 download speed is limited to around 4 Mbps (instead of my 12 Mbps linespeed). Root cause seems to be the WRT54G CPU load at 100%.

Shock Media IPv6 web hosting

2008-11-23T13:28:00.002+01:00

Shock Media does IPv6 enabled webhosting. That's special. It's even more special that you get a 50 Euro coupon / voucher if you arrive on their site via IPv6.

Windows XP can print over IPv6 to Ubuntu Linux

2008-11-23T13:08:00.004+01:00

Nice: Windows XP can print over IPv6 to Ubuntu Linux. See the information I've filled out on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NetworkPrintingFromWinXP"Windows XP can print over IPv6 to Ubuntu Linux (tested between Windows XP SP3 and Ubuntu Linux 8.10). Make sure both the Windows and Ubuntu have IPv6 connectivity. You should tick "Allow Printing from the Internet" on the Ubuntu machine. Then use

First!

2008-11-23T13:02:00.002+01:00

http://ipv6.google.com/ is IPv6 enabled!